by Jono Bacon | May 22, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
I have rather nice little story to share with you all. My mother in law, Sue, has what can be best described as a *dog-earred mess of a laptop*. A reasonably modern Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows Vista, it was painfully slow to use, crammed with all manner of bloatware...
by Jono Bacon | May 22, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Eagle eyed readers may have noticed I have been talking a lot about [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) in the last few weeks…more so than usual… Well, to put it bluntly, my wife has been out of town for a few weeks and as...
by Jono Bacon | May 16, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Recently I have been talking a little about [building quality and precision into Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/05/14/precision-and-reliability-in-ubuntu-accomplishments/). Tonight I put one of the final missing pieces in place and I...
by Jono Bacon | May 15, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit last week I delivered a plenary on the Tuesday called *Accomplishing An Awesome App Developer Platform* that tells the story of how the Ubuntu app developer platform enabled me to build the [Ubuntu...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I just released a new update for the Ubuntu Community Accomplishments collection. This new release (0.1.1) includes the following new community accomplishments: * Accomplishments Contributor * Attend LoCo Team Event * Bug Squad Member * Ubuntu Forums Council Member *...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
In the Ubuntu world we have some common values that are not just focused on freedom, but also in how we build Ubuntu. Values such as *cadence*, *design*, *quality* and *precision* help guide us in building the best Ubuntu that we can. These values continued to be...
by Jono Bacon | May 8, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu
[Electronic Arts](https://www.ea.com/) are delivering two games into Ubuntu, *Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances* and *Lord of Ultima*. They are currently available in the Ubuntu Software Center. While some may focus on the fact that these are loading web apps,...
by Jono Bacon | May 5, 2012 | Canonical, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quick reminded that my band [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com) will be playing tonight at: Roosters Roadhouse, 1700 Clement Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501 This is about a 5 – 10min cab ride from the Oakland Marriot hotel. Get down there for about...
by Jono Bacon | May 2, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Some of you may have seen the [news of our very first Ubuntu Accomplishments release](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/05/01/first-ubuntu-accomplishments-release/). Thank-you to everyone for testing the system; the feedback has been wonderful so far. 🙂 The...
by Jono Bacon | May 1, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Yesterday I [announced the first Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/05/01/first-ubuntu-accomplishments-release/) release. It is wonderful to see so many of you trying the system; many thanks! As part of the 0.1 release, we have added...
